[Times photo: Ron Thompson]Online resources, including Web sites and e-mailing lists, are making it easier for people to connect with their family's past. Story

Mystery, scandal and discovery onlineGenealogists love to find an ancestor such as my fourth great-grandmother, Margaret "Peggy" Polk Hagler. Her story offers scandal, mystery and even a presidential connection. The Internet introduced us.

CleanSweep may have deleted Word fileQ. Each time I open Microsoft Word 97, a small window opens and says, "The Visual Basic environment could not be initialized. Please run setup to install correctly." After clicking "OK" three times, the program opens and runs without a problem. When I close the program, I get another message that says the same thing. Word was preloaded when I bought the computer two years ago, so I do not have an installation disk. I try to keep current with MS updates, but I haven't seen a reference to this.